For if that eyther they abhor’d the facte,[973]
Or men detested present for to bee,[974]
Some crime[975] was fayn’de or else some haynous acte,
Not they[976] nor theirs from slaughter could be free;
My seruants were preferde in place of mee,[977]
Their wealth was more then mine: the prouerbe went as then,
I neede no treasure want, if I would please my men.
9.
On this I caused her be[978] made away,
And made a vowe no more for aye to wedde,[979]